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Re:Bill Gates says he advocated Skype takeover by tseabrooks on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @06:30PM (#2558209)
MS Research has been working on the life tracking hardware / software combo for awhile now. Which is something I've personally been interested in and I think is going to be huge going forward, especially with facebook getting people accustomed to a privacy free world. I just don't know how to turn that future technology into profits for me yet.

I expect lots of people to opt into a device the records their conversations... locations... images of the people around them... And the collates into some useable data using voice recognition + facial recognition + voice-to-text

The resultant data could be searchable by person... And bring up every picture of the person.. every conversation.. a map of locations where that person was with you (picture or voice)... etc... Anyway, MS Research has been working on similar stuff and I for one think that is going to be awesome technology someday.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/06/life-recorders-may-be-this-...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/se...

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Re:Bill Gates says he advocated Skype takeover by cubicle67 on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @08:28PM (#2558567)
interesting, but wont this clash with US wiretap laws? As far as I understand, many states require two party consent
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Re:Bill Gates says he advocated Skype takeover by awakeasleep on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @12:58AM (#2559101)
As an Illinois resident, I wonder this myself.

My thoughts? Maybe you'd life-record in certain situations. For example, I do not believe representatives of businesses are required to be notified of recording while performing their official duties.

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